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UNIVERSITY  OF  CALIFORNIA 

AT   LOS  ANGELES 


PUBLIC  SCHOOLS 


CITY    OF    BOSTON 


SEPTEMBER,    1838 


BOSTON : 

J.  H.  EASTBURN,  CITY  PRINTER, 

No.  18  State  Street. 


1838. 


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City  Document. — No.  23. 


PUBLIC  SCHOOLS. 


By  a  special  enactment  of  the  Legislature  of  the  Common- 
wealth, passed  in  the  year  1S35,  twenty-four  persons  are 
annually  elected,  two  in  each  ward  of  the  City,  who,  with  the 
Mayor  and  the  President  of  the  Common  Council,  constitute 
the  School  Committee,  and  have  the  superintendence  of  the 
public  schools.  These  are  one  Latin  Grammar  School,  one 
English  High  School,  thirteen  Grammar  and  Writing  Schools, 
and  eighty  three  Primary  Schools,*  in  which  instruction  is 
freely  given  to  children  of  both  sexes,  commencing  at  the 
age  of  four  years. 

The  Primary  Schools  were  instituted  in  the  year  1818,  for*  f 
the  gratuitous  instruction  of  children  from  four  to  seven  yearsA 
of  age.     The  school-rooms  are  hired  or  built  by  the  City,  in 

*The  number  of  Grammar  and  Primary  schools  is  constantly  and  rapidly  in- 
creasing. 


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convenient  places,  and  arc  designed  to  accommodate  an  aver- 
of   about  fifty  children   each.     In  many,  however,  the 
average  much  exceeds  this  number,  on  account  of  the  rapid 
.    increase  of  some  portions  of  the  City.     A  Committee  is  an- 
Dually  appointed  by  the   School  Committee  above  named, 
consisting  of  one  member  for  each   Primary   School,  whose 
duty  it  is  frequently  to  visit  and  examine  the  school  and  report 
its  condition  to  the  whole  board.     The  services  of  this  Com- 
mittee, like  those  of  the  Grammar  School  Committee,  though 
laborious,  are  gratuitously  rendered.     The  course  of  instruc- 
tion pursued  in  the  Primary  Schools,  will  be  understood   by 
the  following  extracts  from  the  Regulations  of  the  Committee. 
Classification.     The   pupils   in   each  of   the    Schools 
shall  be  arranged  in  four  Classes  ;  and  the  third  and  fourth 
Classes  in  two  divisions  each,  viz  : 

Class  IV.     Second  Division. — Cards  ;  Alphabet. 
First   Division.       Cards    continued  ;    Monosyllables    and 
Dissyllables  ;  Numeration,  or  counting  from  one  to  one  hun- 
dred. 

Class  III.  Second  Division.  Spelling  Book;  words 
two  or  more  syllables  ;  combination  of  numbers,  so  as  readily 
to  find  the  page  in  any  book. 

Class  III.  First  Division.  Spelling  Book  continued  ; 
Spelling  and  Easy  Reading  Lessons  ;  the  Lord's  Prayer  ; 
Abbreviations,  Numbers  and  Arithmetical  Tables  commenced. 
Class  II.  Spelling  Book  continued  ;  Spelling,  Read- 
ing, and  all  the  other  lessons  in  the  same  to  the  end  ;  the 
"  Primary  Reading  Lessons  ;"  Arithmetical  Tables  com- 
pleted ;  and  the  study  of  Rules  and  Examples  begun. 

Class  I.  Spelling  Book  continued  ;  Spelling,  Punctua- 
tion, Abbreviation,  Numbers,  words  of  similar  sound  but 
different  in  spelling  and  signification  ;  "  Blake's  First  Read- 
er ;"  New  Testament  ;  and  the  study  of  the  North  American 
Arithmetic  completed. 


The  following  is  a  list  of  the  Schools,  printed   under  the 
direction  of  the  Primary  School  Board. 


ORGANIZATION  OF  THE 

PRIMARY    SCHOOLS, 

AUGUST,  1838. 


George  W.  Otis,  Jr.,  Chairman.      Joseph  Curtis,  See'y- 


STANDING    COMMITTEE. 

R.  W.  Bay  ley,  Chairman,  14  Avon  place. 
F.  A.  Sumner,  Secretary,  13  School  street. 
George  W.  Otis  Jr.,  8  Chamber  street. 
George  Rogers,  12  Newton  place. 
A.  A.  Gould,  194  Tremont  street. 
Francis  Brown,  4G  Leverett  street. 
J.  F.  Bumstead,  113  Washington  street. 
J.  B.  Stebbins,  Broadway,  South  Boston. 
I.  W.  Bourne,  Front  street. 

COMMITTEE    ON    SCHOOL    ROOMS. 


Wm.  A.  Weeks, 
John  Centre, 
J.  B.  M'Cleary, 
F.  A.  Sumner, 
E.  P.  Hartshorn, 
R.  W.  Bayley, 


L.  S.  Cragin, 
Daniel  T.  Coit, 
Henry  Hatch, 
J.  B.  Stebbins, 
Edmund  Jackson. 


G.  W.  Otis,  Jr. 


COMMITTEE    OF    CONFERENCE. 

F.  A.  Sumner, 


J.  F.  Bumstead. 


DISTRICT  NO.  1. 


NO.   AND    LOCATION. 

1  Christ  Church  Vestry. 

2  Tileston  street. 

3  Snowhill  street. 

4  Tileston  street. 

5  Fleet  street. 


VISITING    COMMITTEE. 

I.  W.  Bourne,  Front  street. 
John  Center,  25  High  street. 
William  A.  Weeks,  30  Atkinson  street. 
Henry  Clapp,  Jr.,  Salem  street. 
Richard  Austin,  Unity  street. 


6  226  Hanover  street. 

7  Snowbill  street. 

S  Parkman 's  Vestry. 

9  Fleet  street. 

10  Commercial  street. 


J.  Moriarty,  Cross  and  Salem  street. 
Joseph  W.  Ingraham,  5  N.  Bennett  st. 
Henry  Andrews,  Clark  street. 
T.  Restieaux,  Hanovei,  cor.  Cross  st. 
Henry  G.  Clark,  Hanover  street. 


DISTRICT  NO.  2. 


1  N.  Margin,  op.  Bp.  Mt.  H. 

2  Parkman  place. 

3  Parkman  place. 

4  G3  Prince,  corner  of  Salem  st. 

5  \.  Margin,  op.  Bp.  Mt.  H. 

6  Vestry  2d  church,  Hanover  st. 

7  Rear  of  No.  7,  Cross  street. 

8  Rear  of  No.  7,  Cross  street. 


Christopher  Gore,  35  Prince  street. 
Samuel  Chessman,  170  Hanover  street. 
Andrew  Geyer,  104  Hanover  street. 
John  B.  M'Cleary,  82  Prince  street. 
S.W.  Hall,  74  Salem  st.  cor.  Noyes  pi. 
G.  H.  Lodge,  114  Hanover  street. 
Jason  D.  Battles,  172  Hanover  street. 
Beza  Lincoln,  11  Richmond  street. 


DISTRICT  NO.  3. 


1  Merrimack  street. 

2  South  Margin  street. 

3  64  Union  street. 

4  Distilhouse  square. 

5  SS  Chamber  street. 

6  Rear  32  Leverett  street. 

7  Lyman  place. 

8  4  Milton  street. 

9  Court  street. 


A.  J.  Richardson,  24  "Washington  st. 
Francis  Brown,  46  Leverett  street. 
Samuel  G.  Simpkins,  79  Court  street. 
Frederick  A.  Sumner,  Court  square. 
Rufus  G.  Norris,  3  Minot  street. 
Thomas  J.  Bayley,  22  Allen  street. 
Abraham  G.  Wyman,  Green  street, 
Lewis  G.  Pray,  155  Washington  st. 
Aaron  Sweet,  10  Crescent  place. 


DISTRICT  NO.  4. 


1  Rear  72  Cambridge  street. 

2  May,  cor.  South  Russell  street. 

3  May  street. 

4  McLean,  cor.  of  Blossom  st. 

5  Smith's  school  h.  Belknap  st. 

6  No.  6,  school  h.  Derne  street. 

7  High  school  h.  Pickney  street. 
S  Rear  72  Cambridge  street. 

9  Wells'  school  h.  ward  room. 


Daniel  Henchman,  41  Cambridge  st. 
Richard  W.  Bayley,  14  Avon  place. 
Eliphalet  P.  Hartshorn,  24  Blossom  st. 
Elijah  Cobb,  24  McLean  street. 
Aurelius  D.  Parker,  20  Court  street. 
Enoch  Hobart,  175  Tremont  street. 
Wendall  Phillips,  12  Beacon  street. 
Francis  C.  Manning,  17  Winter  street. 
Henry  B.  Rogers,  5  Joy  place. 


DISTRICT  NO.  5. 


1  Purchase  street  church. 

2  Franklin  street. 


Martin  Gay,  48  Milk  street. 
James  K.  Whipple,  9  Cornhill. 


3  Purchase  place. 

4  High,  corner  Federal  street. 

5  Franklin  street. 

6  Harvard  place. 

7  107  Broad  street. 

8  Gibbs  lane. 

9  131  Broad  street. 


Josiah  F.  Bumstead,  1 13  Washington  st. 
Samuel  Wales,  Jr.  56  Federal  street. 
Wm.  D.  Ticknor,  135  Washington  st. 
Samuel  H.  Walley,  14  Beacon  street. 
Lorenzo  S.  Cragin,  6  High  street. 
Ebenezer  Jones,  35  Washington  place. 
Wiliiam  Howe,  No.  40  Pearl  street. 


DISTRICT  NO.  6. 


8  Boylston  square. 

Johnson  school  house. 

68  Pleasant  street. 

School  house,  East  street. 

Short  street,  cor.  of  Essex  st. 

South  street  court. 

South  street  court. 

Rear  Hollis  street  church. 

School  house,  East  street. 

10  School  house,  East  street. 

1 1  South  street  court. 

12  Boylston  square. 


George  Vinton,  10  Newton  place. 
Samuel  McBurney,  Marion  street. 
George  W.  Phillips,  Eliot  street. 
James  B.  Dow,  362  Washington  st. 
Thomas  F.  Chase,  319  Washington  st. 
Daniel  T.  Coit,  12  High  street. 
John  Gulliver,  313  Washington  street. 
F.  D.  Stedman,  11  Lagrange  place. 
Elisha  Field,  3  East  street. 
Charles  C.  Barry,  115  Essex  street. 
E.  L.  Tead,  rear  of  67  Bedford  street. 
Thomas  Adams,  67  Bedford  street. 


DISTRICT  NO.  7. 


1  South  Congregational  church. 

2  Carver  street. 

3  Grace  church  vestry. 

4  Tremont  street. 

5  Pleasant  street. 

6  Common  street. 

7  Johnson  school  house. 

8  Rear  of  Hollis  street  church. 


Henry  Hatch,  23  Orange  street. 
Joseph  Curtis,  14  Fayette  street. 
A.  B.  Wheeler,  S  South  Bennet  st. 
Wm.  Taylor,  Jr.  408  Washington  st. 
Francis  Bullard,  16  Oak  street. 
John  Flint,  20  Common  street. 
Samuel  F.  Morse,  Kneeland  street. 
L.  H.  Morris,  2  Lagrange  place. 


DISTRICT  NO.  8. 


1  Under  Mr.  Capen's  church. 

2  Fourth  street,  near  B.  street. 

3  Phillips  church  vestry. 

4  Rear  of  Engine  house. 

5  Under  South  Baptist  Church. 

6  D  street,  or  Broadway. 

7  Fourth  street,  near  A  street. 

8  Under  St.  Matthew's  church. 

9  Turnpike  st.,  near  Free  Bridge. 


William  C.  Jenkins,  Dorchester  st. 

Alvan  Simonds,  Mechanics'  Bank. 

Cranston  Howe,  Broadway. 

John  B.  Stebbins,  head  of  Broadway. 

Ebenezer  Stevens,  Broadway. 

Nehemiah  P.  Mann,  F  street. 

Solon  Jenkins,  192  Pleasant  street. 

Timothy  Bedlington. 

Brewster  Reynolds,  Turnpike  street. 


DISTRICT  NO.  9. 

1  Castle  street.  E.  Weston,  Jr.  Chapel,  Warren  st. 

2  Franklin  School  house.  Samuel  Wheeler,  691  Washington  st. 

3  644  Washington  street.  Joseph  Dall,  566  Washington  street. 

4  On  the  Neck.  J.  T.  Sargent,  11  Chesnut  street. 

5  757  Washington  street.  Otis   Everett,  Jr.,  740  Washington  st. 

6  Northampton  street.  Edmund  Jackson,  773  Washington  st. 

MILL  DAM. 

1  Milldam.  Standing  Committee. 

EAST  BOSTON. 

1  Section  No.  3.  Aaron  Ordvvay,  Section  No.  3. 

2  "       No.  1.  Guy  C.  Haynes,     "       No.  1. 

Depository  at  B.  H.  Greene's,  124  Washington  Street. 


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Mason  St. 

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Franklin  School, 

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Mayhew  School, 

Hawkins  St. 

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Hawes  School, 

South  Boston, 

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Smith  School, 

Belknap  St. 

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Fort  Hill, 

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Bowdoin  School, 

Derne  St. 

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Hancock  School, 

Hanover  St. 

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Wells  School, 

McLean  St- 

EnglisJt  Grammar  and  Writing  Schools. 

These  schools  are  the  second  in  order  in  the  system  of 
public  education  established  in  this  City.  The  following  are 
their  names,  situation,  and  date  of  establishment. 

For  Boys,  -  -  1713. 
For  Boys  and  Girls,  1717. 
For  Boys  and  Girls,  1785. 
For  Boys,  -  -  1803. 
For  Boys  and  Girls,  1811. 
For  Boys  and  Girls,  1812. 
For  Boys  and  Girls,  1819. 
For  Girls,  -  -  1821. 
For  Girls,  -  -  1822. 
For  Boys  and  Girls,  1S33. 
11.     Lyman  School,  East  Boston,  For  Boys  and  Girls,  1837. 

In  these  schools  are  taught  the  common  branches  of  an 
English  education.  In  the  several  buildings,  where  the  ar- 
rangement is  complete,  there  are  two  large  halls  occupied  by 
two  departments,  one  of  which  is  for  a  Grammar  School, 
and  the  other  for  a  Writing  School.  The  scholars  are  or- 
ganized in  two  divisions.  While  one  division  attends  to 
Grammar,  the  other  attends  to  Writing  ;  exchanging  half 
daily.  In  the  Grammar  department,  the  pupils  are  taught 
chiefly,  Spelling,  Reading,  English  Grammar,  and  Geogra- 
phy ;  in  the  Writing  department,  they  are  taught  Writing, 
Arithmetic,  and  Book-keeping.  To  these  schools  apply  the 
following  regulations,  in  addition  to  those  laid  down  in  the 
preceding  chapter. 

Children  are  admitted  into  the  Grammar  and  Writing 
Schools  at  the  age  of  seven  years,  who  can  read  easy  prose. 
They  must  be  examined  by  the  grammar  master.  Children 
above  seven  years  of  age,  although  not  possesssing  the  neces- 
sary qualifications,  may  be  admitted  by  a  special  permit  from 
the  sub-committee  of  the  school. 

In  case  any  applicant  shall  be  rejected  by  the  master,  an 
appeal  may  be  made  to  the  sub-committee  of  the  school. 

Boys   are   not  permitted  to  retain  their  places  in  these 


schools  beyond  the  day  of  the  next  annual  exhibition,  after 
they  shall  have  arrived  at  fourteen  years  of  age,  unless  by 
special  leave  from  the  sub-committee.  Girls  are  allowed  to 
attend  these  schools  until  the  next  annual  exhibition,  after 
they  shall  have  arrived  at  the  age  of  sixteen. 

No  pupil  is  allowed  to  give  his  general  or  exclusive  atten- 
dance in  one  department  of  the  school,  without  a  special 
permit  from  the  sub-committee. 

In  the  grammar  department  the  books  and  exercises  are 
as  follows. 

Class  IV.  No.  1.  Emerson's  National  Spelling  Book.  2. 
Pierpont's  Introduction  to  the  National  Reader. 

Class  III.  Nos.  1.  2.  continued.  3.  Murray's  Eng- 
lish Grammar,  abridged  by  Alger,  or  Parker  and  Fox's  Pro- 
gressive Exercises  in  English  Grammar.  4.  Field's  Geog- 
raphy and  Atlas. 

Class  II.  Nos.  1.  3.  4.  continued.  5.  Pierpont's  Na- 
tional Reader.  6.  Worcester's  Geography  and  Atlas.  7. 
Frost's  Exercises  in  Parsing.  The  two  higher  classes  in 
each  school  are  allowed,  and  the  upper  class  required  to 
use  Worcester's  or  Walker's  Dictionary. 

Class  I.  Nos.  1.  3.  5.  continued.  8.  Pierpont's 
American  First  Class  Book.  9.  Goodrich's  History  of  the 
United  States.  10.  Exercises  in  Composition  and  Declama- 
tion. 

The  following  studies  and  books  may  be  introduced  at  the 
discretion  of  the  master. 

Smellie's  Philosophy  of  Natural  History,  Ware's  edition. 
Parker's  Compendium  of  Natural  and  Experimental  Philoso- 
phy, stereotyped  edition.  Worcester's  Elements  of  General 
History.     Parker's  Exercises  in  English  Composition. 

On  Mondays  the  children,  who  usually  read  in  the  First 
Class  Book,  read  in  the  Bible. 

A  philosophical  apparatus  is  furnished  to  all  of  the  schools, 
except  the  Lyman  and  Smith  schools. 

In  the  writing  department  the  books  and  exercises  are  as 
follows  : — 


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Class  IV.  No.  1.  Writing.  2.  Emerson's  North 
American  Arithmetic,  Part  First. 

Class  III.  No.  1  continued.  3.  Oral  Exercises  in  the 
North  American  Arithmetic,  Part  Second. 

Class  II.  No.  1  and  3  continued.  4.  Written  Exer- 
cises in  the  North  American  Arithmetic,  Part  Second.  5. 
Penmaking. 

Class  I.  Nos.  1  and  5  continued.  6.  The  North 
American  Arithmetic,  Part  Third.  7.  Robinson's  Book- 
keeping. 

Members  of  the  first  class  who  have  nearly  completed 
the  course  of  exercises  in  Arithmetic,  may  be  instructed  in 
Algebra  and  Geometry.  Text  Books,  Bailey's  First  Les- 
sons in  Algebra  and  Grund's  Geometry. 

All  the  children  are  taught  daily  in  arithmetic,  and  in 
writing  as  often  as  the  master  may  deem  it  useful  ;  and  the 
teachers  are  required  to  furnish  the  pupils  with  copy-slips 
written,  or  from  good  engravings,  or  to  write  the  copies  them- 
selves in  the  writing-books. 

Regulations  for  the  Johnson  and  Winthrop  Schools. 

12.  Johnson  School,  Tremont  St.        For  Girls,     -    -    -     1836. 

13.  Winthrop  School,        East  St.  For  Boys,     -    -    -     1S36. 

In  these  two  schools  are  taught  the  same  branches  of  edu- 
cation which  are  taught  in  the  other  English  Grammar 
Schools ;  the  same  books  are  used,  and  the  same  general 
regulations  apply.  A  different  plan  has,  however,  been 
adopted  for  their  organization  and  government,  which  is  as 
follows. 

Each  of  these  two  schools  is  under  the  charge  of  a  master, 
who  is  responsible  for  the  state  of  his  school  in  all  its  de- 
partments, and  who  is  required  to  give  so  much  of  his  per- 
sonal attention  to  each  part  of  the  school  as  may  be  necessary 
to  an  acquaintance  with  its  condition. 

In  each  of  these  two  schools  there  are  five  instructers 
besides  the  master,  viz  :  an  usher  and  four  female  teachers, 


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In  addition  to  the  above  named  instructors,  there  is  a  pro- 
fessed teacher  of  penmanship,  appointed  by  the  sub-com- 
mittee of  the  two  schools  in  conference,  whose  duty  it  is  to 
instruct  both  schools  in  writing,  at  such  hours  and  on  such 
days,  (not  exceeding  three  days  in  each  week)  as  he  shall 
be  requested  to  do  so  by  the  respective  masters  of  the  two 
schools,  after  consultation  with  their  respective  sub-com- 
mittees. 

The  arrangement  of  these  two  schools,  in  respect  to  clas- 
ses and  studies  and  other  matters  of  internal  economy,  is  left 
to  the  good  sense  and  fidelity  of  the  masters,  subject  to  the 
control  of  the  sub-committees  of  the  schools  respectively. 

English  High  School. 

This  school  is  situated  in  Pinckney  street.  It  was  insti- 
tuted in  1821,  with  the  design  of  furnishing  the  young  men  of 
this  city,  who  are  not  intended  for  a  collegiate  course  of 
study,  and  who  have  enjoyed  the  usual  advantages  of  the 
other  public  schools,  with  the  means  of  completing  a  good 
English  education.  Here  is  given  instruction  in  the  elements 
of  mathematics  and  natural  philosophy,  with  their  application 
to  the  sciences  and  the  arts,  in  grammar,  rhetoric,  and  belles 
lettres,  in  moral  philosophy,  in  history  natural  and  civil,  and 
in  the  French  language.  This  institution  is  furnished  with  a 
valuable  mathematical  and  philosophical  apparatus,  for  the 
purpose  of  experiment  and  illustration. 

The  instructors  in  this  school  are  a  master,  a  sub-master, 
and  so  many  assistants  as  shall  give  one  instructer  to  every 
thirty-five  pupils,  but  no  additional  assistant  shall  be  allowed 
for  any  increase  less  than  twenty-one.  It  is  a  necessary 
qualification  in  all  these  instructers,  that  they  have  been  edu- 
cated at  some  respectable  college.  In  addition  to  these, 
there  is  a  teacher  of  the  French  language. 

No  boy  can  be  admitted  to  this  school  under  the  age  of 
twelve  years. 

Candidates  for  admission  must  produce  from  the  masters  of 


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the  schools  they  last  attended,  certificates  of  good  moral 
character  and  presumed  qualifications  for  admission  into  the 
school.  It  is  however  the  duty  of  the  master  to  exam- 
ine them  in  Spelling,  Heading,  Writing,  English  Grammar, 
Modern  Geography  and  Arithmetic,  of  which  a  thorough 
knowledge  is  indispensable  to  admission. 

The  course  of  study  and  instruction  in  this  school,  is  the 
following  : 

No.  1.  Reviews  of  the  preparatory  studies,  in  the  text- 
books authorized  to  be  used  in  the  Grammar  and  Writing 
Schools.  2.  Ancient  Geography,  (Worcester's.)  3.  Wor- 
cester's General  History  and  History  of  the  United  States. 
4.  Colburn's  or  Bailey's  Algebra.  5.  Legendre's  Geome- 
try. 6.  Book-keeping.  7.  Blair's  Rhetoric.  8.  Paley's 
Moral  Philosophy.  9.  Chemistry.  10.  Trigonometry,  with 
its  application  to  Surveying,  Navigation,  Mensuration,  Astro- 
nomical Calculations,  &c.  11.  Constitution  of  the  United 
States.  12.  Natural  Philosophy.  13.  Linear  Drawing.  14. 
Paley's  Natural  Theology.  15.  Paley's  Evidences  of  Chris- 
tianity. 16.  Elements  of  Astronomy.  17.  Logic.  18. 
Intellectual  Philosophy. 

The  several  divisions  also  receive  instruction  in  Spelling, 
Reading,  Writing,  English  Grammar,  Declamation,  Compo- 
sition, and  the  French  Language. 

Latin  Grammar  School. 

This  school  is  situated  in  School  street.  It  was  instituted 
about  the  middle  of  the  17th  century.  The  Latin  Grammar 
School  and  the  English  High  School  complete  the  system  of 
public  education,  enjoyed  alike  by  all  classes  in  this  city. 

In  the  Latin  Grammar  School  the  rudiments  of  the  Latin 
and  Greek  languages  are  taught,  and  scholars  are  fully  quali- 
fied for  the  University.  Instruction  is  also  given  in  mathe- 
matics, geography,  history,  declamation,  and  English  compo- 
sition. 

The  instructers  in  this  school  are  a  master,  a  sub-master, 


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and  so  many  assistants  as  shall  give  one  instructer  to  every 
thirty-five  pupils,  but  no  additional  assistant  shall  be  allowed 
for  an  increase  less  than  twenty-one. 

It  is  a  necessary  qualification  in  all  the  instructers  of  this 
school  that  they  have  been  educated  at  some  respectable 
college. 

Boys  to  be  admitted  into  this  school  must  be  at  least  ten 
years  old. 

Candidates  for  admission  are  required  to  produce,  from  the 
masters  of  the  schools  they  last  attended,  certificates  of  good 
moral  character.  They  must  be  able  to  read  common  En- 
glish authors  correctly  and  fluently,  to  write  a  running  hand, 
to  understand  mental  arithmetic,  and  the  simple  rules  of  writ- 
ten arithmetic,  and  to  answer  the  map  questions  of  Worcester's 
modern  geography,  and  must  have  a  sufficient  knowledge  of 
English  grammar  to  parse  common  sentences  in  prose.  A 
knowledge  of  Latin  grammar  is  considered  equivalent  to  that 
of  English. 

The  regular  course  of  instruction  continues  five  years,  and 
no  scholar  can  enjoy  the  privileges  of  this  school  beyond  that 
term,  unless  by  leave  of  the  sub-committee. 

The  books  and  exercises  required  during  the  course  of 
instruction  in  this  school  are  the  following. 

Class  V.  No.  1.  Andrews  and  Stoddard's  Latin  Gram- 
mar. 2.  English  Grammar,  Reading.  3.  Liber  Primus,  as 
stereotyped  in  1827.  4.  Viri  Romae,  as  published  for  this 
school  in  1833.  Andrews's  Latin  Reader  may  be  substituted 
for  No.  3  or  No.  4,  but  not  for  both. 

Class  IV.  Nos.  1.  2.  4.  continued.  5.  New  Latin 
Tutor,  and  reading  and  writing  exercises  from  it,  or  An- 
drews's Latin  exercises.    Declamation.    6.  Latin  Dictionary. 

7.  Dillaway's  Roman  Antiquities  and  Ancient  Mythology. 

8.  Phaedri  Fabulae  Expurgatae.  9.  Cornelius  Nepos.  10. 
Cassar's  Commentaries.  11.  Worcester's  Modern  Geogra- 
phy. 12.  Emerson's  second  part  of  the  North  American 
Arithmetic,  or  Colburn's  First  Lessons.  13.  Writing  trans- 
lations from  Latin  into  English. 


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Class  TIT.  Nos.  1.  2.  5.  6.  7.  11.  12.  13.  continued, 
and  14.  Written  Arithmetic,  Emerson's  third  part,  or  Col- 
burn  and  Lacroix.  15.  Excerpta  ex  Ovidio,  Gould's  edition. 
16.  Fisk's  Greek  Grammar  and  Exercises.  17.  Greek  De- 
lectus. 18.  Wilson's  Sallust.  19.  Worcester's  Ancient 
Geography.     20.  Lempriere's  Classical  Dictionary. 

Classes  IT.  and  T.  Nos.  1.  2.  5.  6.  11.  13.  14.  16.  19. 
continued,  21.  Cleveland's  Greek  Antiquities.  22.  Col- 
burn's  and  Euler's  or  Bailey's  Algebra.  23.  Cicero's  Se- 
lect Orations,  Folsom's  edition.  24.  Gould's  Virgil,  or  any 
good  edition,  without  an  Interpretation,  or  an  Order  of  Con- 
struction. 25.  Jacob's  Greek  Reader.  26.  Greek  Lex- 
icon. 27.  Writing  translations  from  Greek  into  English  ; 
committing  to  memory,  portions  of  Latin  and  Greek,  and 
Fisk's  Greek  Exercises.  28.  English  Composition.  29. 
History.  30.  Geometry  and  Trigonometry.  31.  Juvenal, 
Leverett's  edition.  32.  Gould's  Horace,  or  any  other  good 
edition,  without  an  Order  of  Construction.  33.  Homer's 
Iliad.  34.  Greek  Testament,  the  Four  Gospels.  35. 
Xenophon's  Anabasis.  36.  Writing  and  composing  Latin 
Themes  and  Verses.  37.  Stansbury's  Catechism  on  the 
Constitution  of  the  United  States.  38.  Paley's  Natural 
Theology,  with  Paxton's  Illustrations. 

It  being  however  understood,  that  there  must  necessarily 
be  different  degrees  of  proficiency  amongst  so  many  pupils, 
especially  in  the  highest  class,  the  following  studies,  viz. 
Geometry  and  Trigonometry,  Xenophon's  Anabasis,  Juve- 
nal, Horace,  Homer,  Stansbury's  Catechism,  and  Paley's 
Natural  Theology,  not  being  required  for  admission  to  the 
University,  are  allowed  to  be  introduced  at  the  discretion  of 
the  master,  but  are  not  absolutely  required. 

No  translations  of  the  foregoing  Latin  and  Greek  authors 
are  allowed  in  the  school,  nor  any  Interpretations,  Keys,  or 
Orders  of  Construction. 

Instruction  is  also  given  in  writing. 


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Average  attendance- 
July,  1S38. 

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Eliot, 

Boys, 

456 

374 

Adams, 

Boys  and  Girls, 

427 

310 

Franklin, 

Boys  and  Girls, 

466 

348 

Mayhevv, 
Hawes, 

Boys, 

Boys  and  Girls, 

442 
456 

337 
341 

Smith, 

Boys  and  Girls, 

158 

109 

Boylston, 

Boys  and  Girls. 

415 

358 

Bowdoin, 

Girls, 

443 

315 

Hancock, 

Girls, 

591 

460 

Wells, 

Boys  and  Girls, 

422 

332 

Lyman, 
Johnson, 

Boys  and  Girls, 
Girls, 

103 

369 

87 
287 

Winthrop, 
English  High, 
Latin, 

Boys, 
Boys, 
Boys, 

214 
92 

88 

147 

87 
81 

Total, 

5142 

3973 

Average  absences  1169,  or  116  less  than  25  per  cent. 

Whole  number  of  boys  in  Grammar  Schools,  2424 

«            u       «   girls  "         "                "  2538 

"            "      "  boys  "  Primary          "  2607 

«            "       "  girls  "         "                "  2440 

Number  of  boys  in  Latin  and  English  High 

School,  180 


Total,  educated  at  the  public  expense,         10,189 


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